This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
For related introductory information, see: Accessibility, Browsers, Media Players.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Standards
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2002-12-17
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This document provides guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web
accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical,
cognitive, and neurological). User agents include HTML browsers and other types
of software that retrieve and render Web content. A user agent that
conforms to these guidelines will
promote accessibility through its own user interface and through other internal
facilities, including its ability to communicate with other technologies
(especially assistive technologies).
Furthermore, all users, not just users with disabilities, should find
conforming user agents to be more usable.
In addition to helping developers of HTML browsers and media players, this
document will also benefit developers of assistive technologies because it
explains what types of information and control an assistive technology may
expect from a conforming user agent. Technologies not addressed directly by
this document (e.g., technologies for braille rendering) will be essential to
ensuring Web access for some users with disabilities.
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Group Notes
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2010-12-16
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The XHTML Access module defines an element that, when used in conjunction with other XHTML modules in XHTML Family Markup Languages, enables a more robust accessibility model than is presently
possible.
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2002-12-17
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translations
This document provides techniques for satisfying the checkpoints defined in
"User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0"
[UAAG10]. These techniques address
key aspects of the accessibility of user interfaces, content rendering,
application programming interfaces (APIs), and languages
such as the Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML), Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) and the
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
(SMIL).
The techniques listed in this document are not required for conformance to
the Guidelines. These techniques are not necessarily the only way of satisfying
the checkpoint, nor are they a definitive set of requirements for satisfying a
checkpoint.
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Drafts
Below are draft documents:
other Working Drafts.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Other Working Drafts
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2011-07-19
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This document provides guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web
accessibility for people with disabilities. User agents include browsers and other types
of software that retrieve and render Web content. A user agent that
conforms to these guidelines will
promote accessibility through its own user interface and through other internal
facilities, including its ability to communicate with other technologies
(especially assistive technologies).
Furthermore, all users, not just users with disabilities, should find
conforming user agents to be more usable.
In addition to helping developers of browsers and media players, this
document will also benefit developers of assistive technologies because it
explains what types of information and control an assistive technology may
expect from a conforming user agent. Technologies not addressed directly by
this document (e.g., technologies for braille rendering) will be essential to
ensuring Web access for some users with disabilities.
The "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" (UAAG 2.0)
is part of a series of accessibility guidelines published by the W3C Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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2011-07-19
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This document provides explanation of the intent of UAAG 2.0 success criteria, examples of implementation of the UAAG 2.0 guidelines, best practice recommendations and additional resources for the guidelines.
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2007-10-31
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This First Public Working Draft outlines the requirements that the User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) has set for development of User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (UAAG 2.0). These requirements are based on feedback from
the use of UAAG 1.0 and will be used to determine if the UAWG has met
its goals as UAAG 2.0 advances through the W3C
Recommendation Track Process.
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W3C
